Antonis Samaras

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News about Antonis Samaras, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 24, 2015

Polls indicate that many Greeks are inclined to vote for leftist firebrand Alexis Tsipras despite his relative inexperience and warnings from European officials; support for Tsipras is blooming amid climate of fear, which has been stoked by incumbent party of Prim Min Antonis Samaras, and speaks to desperation of voters who are fed up with country's situation. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

European officials issue stern warnings to Greece that it cannot leave the eurozone due to concerns that Alexis Tsipras, head of leftist Greek Syriza party, seems to be narrow front-runner in elections that will determine prime minister; Tsipras has vowed to roll back austerity measures and repudiate some Greek debt, which his opponent Prime Min Antonis Samaras says will lead Greece to default and exit euro. MORE

Dec. 24, 2014

Second of three possible rounds of voting in Greek Parliament fails to elect president; role is largely ceremonial but election comes during time of tense political debate over unpopular austerity measures enacted by coalition government of Prime Min Antonis Samaras; coalition candidate Stavros Dimas performs better than expected, but falls short of 200 votes needed in second round. MORE

Dec. 22, 2014

Greece's Prime Min Antonis Samaras offers to set a date in late 2015 for early general elections; move is part of effort to rally lawmakers behind Stavros Dimas, government's candidate for president. MORE

Sep. 7, 2014

Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras, during annual trade fair in Thessaloniki, promises tax reductions in bid to appeal to Greeks weary of four years of austerity that have cut living standards; he is also looking to gain political capital as opposition pushes for early general elections. MORE

Oct. 6, 2013

Greek resentment over Germany's power to dictate budget austerity has some Greeks talking about settling debts from World War II; aging victims of the Nazi occupation are not the only ones demanding a full accounting, as Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras's government has compiled an 80-page report on reparations and a huge, never-repaid loan Greece was forced to make under Nazi occupation from 1941 to 1945. MORE

Oct. 1, 2013

Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras suggests that he wants to eradicate Golden Dawn, neo-fascist xenophobic political party that is now facing a major government crackdown on charges it is a criminal organization involved in murder, attempted murder, blackmail and other crimes. MORE

Jun. 22, 2013

Greece's Democratic Left party withdraws from government to protest Prime Min Antonis Samaras’s closure of state broadcaster ERT, latest in series of unilateral decisions that have enraged his partners in government; move deals serious blow to fragile three-way coalition. MORE

Sep. 29, 2012

Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras has been laboring to restore Greece's credibility and to dispel all fears that the country could leave the euro, even as the harsh austerity he must impose to keep the country in the common currency stokes new wave of social unrest; says he is hopeful, but warns that without liquidity, Greece could face collapse. MORE

Aug. 26, 2012

Pres Francois Hollande of France expresses his commitment to keep Greece in the euro zone, but he urges the country's new prime minister, Antonis Samaras, to go all out to solve the economic crisis. MORE

Jul. 7, 2012

Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras, in speech before Parliament, sets out his fragile three-party coalition government's policy platform; focuses on a bold program of selling government assets and reducing state spending, while also emphasizing the need to relieve an austerity-weary public. MORE

Jun. 27, 2012

Greek government moves swiftly to shore up its unraveling cabinet ahead of crucial talks with international lenders; Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appoints Yannis Stournaras to replace the ailing Vassilis Rapanos; Stournaras, leader of an influential Greek nonprofit economic research group, will aim to keep Greece within the euro zone. MORE

Jun. 26, 2012

Vassilis Rapanos, Greece’s designated finance minister, resigns due to illness; resignation is an inauspicious start for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's new government as it tries to make good on campaign promises to get Greece’s creditors to ease harsh austerity terms linked to its multibillion-euro bailouts. MORE

Jun. 25, 2012

Greek Prime Min Antonis Samaras and his nominee for finance minister Vassilis Rapanos are both ill and will miss European Union summit meeting that is intended to discuss whether to ease the terms of Greece's bailout conditions; they will be replaced at the meeting by a ministerial delegation. MORE

Jun. 22, 2012

Greece’s new coalition government, headed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, plans on a four-year term, but it may struggle to last a fraction of that time; one illustration of that tenuousness is the makeup of the new cabinet, which has been trimmed to 17 ministers and 22 deputies, a total that is 10 fewer than the previous cabinet. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

Antonis Samaras is sworn in as prime minister of Greece after his New Democracy party agrees to form a coalition government with two other parties; with Greece’s economy at a standstill and European leaders still uncertain about the country’s fate, Samaras, a pro-European nationalist known for his stubbornness as well as his tactical shrewdness, comes into power with little room for maneuvering and scant chance of comforting Greeks. MORE

Jun. 19, 2012

Antonis Samaras, the leader of the center-right party that placed first in Greek parliamentary elections, begins talks to form a coalition government aimed at keeping the country in the euro zone and renegotiating its loan agreement with the foreign creditors keeping it afloat. MORE

Nov. 24, 2011

Antonis Samaras, the leader of the second-largest political party in Greece's interim government, sends a letter to the country's foreign creditors pledging to support a debt-relief deal, but it is unclear whether the move would break a political deadlock that is preventing Greece from receiving badly needed rescue funds. MORE

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